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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Briefly: State Man arrested in beating at day care
Uncle charged
TACOMA — The Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office said a Gig Harbor man charged with vehicular homicide and reckless TACOMA — Tacoma endangerment for the police have arrested a man crash that killed his they said severely beat a 9-year-old nephew had woman at a child day care about 4 ounces of mariMonday. juana in the car and The News Tribune said blew a 0.194 percent police identified the man as on an alcohol breath test. Andrake Morris. Jayce Lee Damon RanHe appeared in Pierce dall pleaded not guilty County Superior Court on Tuesday at his arraignTuesday afternoon and was ment and was held with ordered held in lieu of bail set at $250,000. $1 million bond. Investigators said the Police said the victim 26-year-old had been drinkwas inside Tender Heart ing and using marijuana Learning Center at about before he left a family bar6:40 a.m. Monday when a becue early Saturday to man knocked on the door. give his nephew and He asked about enroll8-year-old niece a ride to ing a child, so the worker their grandparents. let him inside. Randall rolled his car off The attack was interstate Highway 16 near rupted by another employee arriving for work. Purdy. Nine-year-old Donovan The attacker fled on foot. Best was fatally injured. Police spokeswoman His 8-year-old sister was Loretta Cool said evidence collected from the day care buckled in the back seat and not injured. suggested a violent sexual She told troopers they assault had occurred. had asked their uncle to Police believe he is slow down. responsible for other vioThe Associated Press lent sexual crimes.
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Sequim schools OK funds for action plan $79,980 contract with Tacoma firm to look at district’s facilities, security BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
In “Rumors,� Neil Simon’s comedy, Ludlow Village Players Doug Hubbard, Karen Starling, Ginny Ford and Wynne Stevens, from left, portray New Yorkers at a dinner party — where the host and hostess are missing.
One-liners to abound in Ludlow’s ‘Rumors’ BY DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT LUDLOW — “Rumors,� the classic Neil Simon comedy — “a delicious romp,� in the words of director Vallery Durling — is on stage Thursday through Saturday at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place. The Ludlow Village Players are staging “Rumors,� replete with
Simon’s rapid-fire quips and rich, successful New Yorkers giving a dinner party. They’re celebrating their anniversary, so they invite a houseful of guests — but when they arrive, the host and hostess and all of the domestic help are missing. Events spiral out of control, and “you will never in a thousand years guess the ending,� said Durling. “Rumors� stars Village
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“Planning a bond for a community like Sequim is so important,� Lee Fenton, BLRB’s managing principal, told the School Board at its meeting Monday night. “This can set the stage for decades and decades and decades.� The district budgeted $80,000 for the study, said Brian Lewis, district business manager. The contract will be paid out of the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year, which begins in September. ________ BLRB was selected from Features Editor Diane Urbani nine design firms that subde la Paz can be reached at 360452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane. mitted their qualifications for the project. urbani@peninsuladailynews.com. Players Don Clark, Shirley Davies-Owens, Ginny Ford, Jim Gormly, Doug Hubbard, Eve McDougall, Carl Miller, Karen Starling, Wynne Stevens and Vicki Valley, with curtain times at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday and finally at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $14 at the Bay Club itself and at www. brownpapertickets.com, while more information can be found at 360-437-0324 or jenpl@olypen.com.
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Community input The most important factor in determining if a bond is needed, Fenton said, is community input. He proposed the district organize a special group with members pulled from throughout the district to talk over the remodel/ rebuild options. “At the end of the day, it needs to be driven by a group of citizens,� Fenton said. He presented the board with a timeline that has a special panel meeting over the next eight to nine months, starting in April. Board Chairwoman Virginia O’Neil suggested the panel be guided by Shea. A previous committee formed to review the school’s facilities, on which she was a member, had several “issues� in reporting to the board, O’Neil said. “You weren’t as nimble as you would be as a committee to the superintendent,� she said. The School Board on Monday night joined 60
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SEQUIM –– Sequim School District directors have unanimously approved a $79,980 contract with Tacoma-based BLRB Architects to study whether the district needs to ask voters for funding to replace or remodel its facilities. BLRB will now spend the rest of this year looking over the district’s current schools and discussing with citizens and staff whether changes are needed and what those changes may be. Depending on what the firm hears, the School Board could elect as soon as December to go to voters with a bond proposal to pay for the new facilities.
Superintendent Kelly Shea said the district began to review its facilities in the wake of the school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., last December. The open design of the high school and Helen Haller Elementary, he said, make it difficult to lock them down in emergencies. Also, space is crunched in the district’s schools. Proposals from state officials for all-day kindergartens would require additional classrooms, as the morning and afternoon kindergarten classes currently share the same rooms. And though enrollment in Sequim schools has remained flat during the past decade, another boom like the one in the 1990s could put the district in a bind for space.
other districts in the state in signing the Washington State School Directors Association’s McCleary Resolution, which demands that the Legislature fund basic public education as laid out in the state constitution and a state Supreme Court ruling. The resolution was proposed in late February by the state association, which asked all school boards to approve and submit it to their state legislators. Director Bev Horan and Shea were among a contingent of North Olympic Peninsula educators who attended a Washington State School Directors Association Legislative Conference in Olympia last weekend. Legislators, Horan reported, were trying to come up with funding for schools without draining other programs. “Getting education more funding so we can do our jobs will be at the cost of a number of other programs that are important to children outside of school,� Shea said. A flurry of school reform bills were filed after the Supreme Court last year ruled that school funding was not meeting the constitutional obligation and ordered funding reforms by 2018. The suit was filed by Chimacum resident Stephanie McCleary, whose name is on the resolution.